BOOK INDEX AWI - 83rd Anniversary Christopher Gentle - Instinct and the Responsive Mark Margaret Coen - Autobiography of My Mother by Meg Stewart Margaret Coen - A Passion for Painting Fred Cress AM - Whispers: Fred Cress Drawings 1959-2007 Jocelyn Maughan - Genre Jocelyn Maughan - The Draughtman's Contract Tom Thompson - Trilogy of Masterworks Kenneth Jack MBE AM - Drawings Kenneth Macqueen - Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen Earle Backen AM - Sacred Art |
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75th ANNIVERSARY BOOK 83rd ANNIVERSARY BOOK (not available) The new Australian Watercolour Institute Book was launched on the 30th October 2006 at the residence of Emeritus President Peter Pinson OAM. Title: The Australian Watercolour Institute: A Galley of Australia's Finest Watercolours Author: Pinson, Peter/ Campbell, Jean/ Laverty, Peter Year Published: 2006 Phillip Mathews Book Publishers Binding: Hardcover This monumental work celebrates Australia's finest watercolours under the distinguished imprimatur of the Australian Watercolour Institute, the nation's premier academy of watercolourists for 83 years. More than 150 contemporary Australian watercolours, plus 40 significant historical works, are reproduced to an exacting standard on quality paper. The book richly illustrates the work of current members of the Institute and also overviews the work of former members. It is prefaced by essays, which document the Institute's history and activities. To a large extent, the history of the Institute is the history of modern watercolour painting in Australia. The Australian Watercolour Institute: A Galley of Australia's Finest Watercolours is an elegant art book that both informs and pleases the higher senses, an ideal gift for any art lover.
$50.00 per copy including postage For further information please contact: Malcolm Carver Ingrid Van Dyk - Secretary mcarver@iprimus.com.au ingrid@optusnet.com.au
CHRISTOPHER GENTLE INSTINCT and the RESPONSIVE MARK by PETER PINSON
The Institute’s immediate Past President, Emeritus Professor Peter Pinson OAM has written this monograph on fellow Institute Member Christopher Gentle. Peter Pinson, an authority on Australian Art, has written monographs for Craftsmen House on Rodney Milgate, Emanuel Raft and Elwyn Lynn. This work on Christopher Gentle has been published by the University of NSW, College of Fine Arts. It has 89 pages with 21 full colour illustrations. This handsome publication can be purchased by sending a $15.00 cheque (that includes packing and postage) to: Chris Gentle, 307 Annandale Street, NSW 2038 For more information please contact Chris at: chris39@bigpond.net.au
MARGARET COEN Honoured Member of the Australian Watercolour Institute From 1937 – 1993
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Meg Stewart Description of book This delightful biography of Australian painter Margaret Coen is written by her daughter, Meg Stewart. Margaret Coen was born into an era when it wasn't easy for a woman to forge an artistic career. Yet she survived as a commercial artist during the Depression, joining Sydney's bohemian set in their sketch clubs and raucous studio parties. She became close friends with Norman Lindsay and married poet Douglas Stewart, which immediately gave her entrée‚ into Sydney's literary circles of the time. Meg tells her mother's story, first published twenty years ago, in Margaret's voice, with a stream of anecdotes and personal details that build a captivating picture of her life and of Australian social and artistic history in this era. Meg has also written a fascinating new chapter on her mother's relationship with Norman Lindsay. RRP: $27.95 Paperback from the Random House Publishers For more information: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9781741668230
MARGARET COEN a passion for painting by Meg Stewart
Lilly Pilly with grass tree flowers, 1960 The moon over Ku-ring-gai, 1970s
The reproduction of this magnificent book represent sixty years of painting, encompassing various genres. Together with the moving description of her life, they provide an inspiring tribute to a woman artist. Published by State Library of New South Wales Press 1997 - RRP $30.00 For more information: www.atmitchell.com/shop or Ph:1300 882 885
FRED CRESS AM Whispers: Fred Cress Drawings 1959-2007 |
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Fred Cress AM, elected to AWI membership in 2006, is the subject of a new and splendid book written by Ken McGregor for $99.95. Published by Macmillan, this is the third hard back book on Fred Cress's work, and the first to focus on his drawings (including watercolours and pastels). The book was launched by broadcaster and author Richard Morecroft at the Opening of Fred's exhibition of drawings at the Australian Galleries Works on Paper Gallery, 24 Glenmore Road, Paddington 2007. Fred Cress is a Sydney artist who divides his time between Australia and rural France, where he maintains a second studio. He is a keen student of human nature. While his quizzical gaze detects the subjects - those who flirt, chase, dance, banquet and otherwise engage in the whole gamut of human affairs - his drawing skills, honed over five decades, provide the means of recording them on paper or canvas. This book is about drawing, and about the artist's use of drawing to capture multiple nuances of human behaviour. Cress is an Australian artist who subscribes to the tradition of artists like Rembrandt and Goya who sought to express aspects of the human condition as they saw it in their times. The more than 900 drawings reproduced in this 256 page book and are arranged in series which date from the 1950s to the present. The book is available from the following: OR www.australiangalleries.com.au
JOCELYN MAUGHAN Renowned painter and teacher have published two outstanding books of her works. Both are of drawings and paintings of everyday life.
1. GENRE
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2. The DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT
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For further information on these books, please contact Jocelyn at: Bakehouse Gallery 19 Bay Street Patonga NSW 2256 Phone: 02 4379 1102
TOM THOMPSON TRILOGY OF MASTERWORKS
Tom Thompson with publisher Jocelyn Maughan and Robin Norling Hardback with 18 pages of colour paintings and drawings. An extract from Jocelyn Maughan's homage: "... an episode in Tom Thompson's art is summarised here in three of his paintings. Like many painters before him, this artist has explored his art through a wide range of interests: murals in public buildings, portraits, drawings and posters in galleries and private colections as well as figure paintings, historical and religious. In this book, the latter conform essentially to the Australian genre. These three major works originated in the country town of Briadwood. This book is a homage to someone I believe is a great Australian artist. I hope, through this book, that many others will share with the genius that is Tom Thompson" Available from: Jocelyn Maughan Bakehouse Gallery 19 Bay Street Patonga NSW 2256 Phone: 02 4379 1102 $29.95 plus postage
IN TRIBUTE TO KENNETH JACK AM MBE 1924 - 2006 NOW AVAILABLE HIS LATEST BOOK BY LOU KLEPAC
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122 drawings are reproduced in chronological order, from when the artist was in his teens to the most recent, created during the last year of his life. |
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KENNETH MACQUEEN Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen |
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Kenneth Macqueen Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth Macqueen Internet Price: $39.95 plus postage Available from: www.australianartbooks.com.au |
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EARLE BACKEN AM SACRED ART
Book descriptionEarle Backen, one of Sydney’s leading printmakers in the early 1960s, was also an accomplished oil painter and watercolourist of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. He was also an oblate of the Anglican Benedictine Community of St Mark at Camperdown, Victoria for more than twenty years. Art and Christianity, his two great passions, came together in his sacred art – with his beloved Christ Church St Laurence a major beneficiary.
Product DetailsHardcover: 128 Pages Price: $65.95 plus postage Only Available From: Christ Church St Laurence 812 George Street Sydney Web site: http://www.ccsl.org.au/
Book Launch on 26 April 2009 Brian Stratton OAM, Daniel Pata & Terence O'Donnell at the Launch
MAX ANGUS PEDDER: The Story, The Paintings In this, his latest book, Max Angus speaks of values stemming from a profound aesthetic sensibility that took him with a group of friends back and back to Lake Pedder, the heart of Tasmania’s South-West wilderness. The book celebrates over fifty years of paintings of Lake Pedder by one artist: Max Angus’ association Details and available from: Published by: Lake Pedder Restoration Committee 64 pages hardcover (300mm x 230mm) 30 colour plates of paintings by Max Angus over 50 years with sketches and photographs Distributed by: Fullers Bookshop 93 St John Street Launceston Tasmania 7250 http://www.fullersbookshop.com.au/launceston.html RRP: $70.00 plus postage& handling
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